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1 Rupee - Shah Allam II
| Issuer | Awadh |
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| Year | 1800-1802 |
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| Value | 1 Rupee |
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| Reverse description | Persian and Urdu Nasta'liq script inscription arranged across two registers separated by a horizontal line, with the characteristic Awadh mint symbols: the Persian letter Mim (م) rendered as a standalone word, accompanied by a floral bud motif and a fish (mahi) symbol — emblems associated with the Nawabs of Awadh. Pellet ornaments punctuate the field, and a crescent with star device appears within the lower register. |
| Reverse script | Arabic |
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Shah Alam II was the Mughal emperor in whose name the nawabs of Awadh continued striking coinage long after the emperor himself had lost any meaningful authority — blinded by the Rohilla chieftain Ghulam Qadir in 1788, he spent his remaining years as a pensioner of the Marathas and then the British. Awadh's use of his regnal titles on silver well into the nineteenth century was a political formality, maintaining the fiction of Mughal suzerainty while the East India Company tightened its grip on the region.
The KM#116.7 variety is distinguished by its mint notation placing it within the Awadh series rather than the broader Mughal provincial issues struck contemporaneously elsewhere.